Now that Galvanized steel has been declared safe for food
Weber Grills, once famous for their porcelean enamel and stainless gas grills, will convert to all galvanized. Company spokesman Paul Stevens said “Who can resist a shiny galvanized grill? We’re going to galvanize the cooking grates too, because they’ll be so much easier to clean”
Additionally, the Napoleon Apollo will change from painted construction to all galvanized. “We always used galvanized on the lower end of our units, because it was away from any heat source- but now we can put the galvanized right up on top where it can be admired by everyone! Ignore the yellowish smoke”. Indeed, they intent to change the name from the Napoleon Apollo to the Napoleon DY-NO-MITE!!
Old Smokey– for years, a grill that LOOKS like two galvanized buckets (though they are made of aluminized steel, not galvanized) has decided to change as well. “Hell, people been saying we look just like two buckets for years. Now all we have to do is buy galvanized buckets and assemble them into grills- our manufacturing costs have disapeared overnight!”
Likewise, Down South grills will stop using expensive stainless and begin using galvanized steel products int heir grills.
“We don’t intend to manufacture the box and frame out of galvanized” company spokesman Ralph Turing claims ‘We will weld up the assembly and then hot-dip it, making sure that the maximum Zinc coating is on all components and there are no gaps or spaces where rust can start”
Even the hoity-toity brutaly expensive Grillery has decided to move from stainless to Galvanized. “it’ll be a ton cheaper to make, and we can all retire before the lawsuits startwe get too old!
On the other end of the spectrum CharBroil has announced the changeswhich will be taking place immmediately. “When Steve H used one of our grills to make the Hoginator, we knew our business was going to increase, but this- this is incredible!” said company spokesman Ralph Char. “We have always said, the Char Broil grills were not meant to be set outside in the rain and expected to last forever, but now that the deletewrious effects of Zinc have been utterly eliminated by an Edict from the Hog King himself, our grills CAN sit outside for AGES without any ill effects!”
Spokesmen from the Big Green Egg company simply said “You people are insane”
Thanks, Steve! I am so glad you could come through for us all! Now if you could just settle that carbon issue with Mr Gore we could all get back to living our lives in (relative) safety. PS: Everyone sees that it’s “beating a dead horse” only when you’re wrong. “I’m tired of this discussion. don’t post about it here anymore” means “I will win this discussion by the force of my will since the facts point away from me”
I don’t need to “beat my chest’. I’m right, and that’s enough. If I’m not, please post prominently on your site the name of the major manufacturer who makes galvanized products that come in direct contact with food and high heat.
Zinc is good for us, no? My geriatric vitamins claim to contain Zinc. Its my cheap Chinese grill, the lead plated one, I worry about.
yep. The pills, with carefully monitored doses provided by pharmaceutical companies for ingestion, are fine. (so long as you don’t exceed the reccomended dose) but the breathing of Zinc fumes is not so good.
Mmm. Lead. Mmm.
There is a disease that affects the Engineering and lawyering community (which means Steve suffers from it twice) called MSDS Syndrome. This unfortunate condition results from the idea the because the person is smart and makes a decision about something based on, and using, their intelligence, well, it HAS to be right!
Ok, let me address the “pills” comment. First off, the amount of zinc in vitamins in measured in milligrams, and it is also in its atomic form. Zinc oxide, which happens when atomic zinc is reduced in the oxygen rich atmosphere, or in an oxygen based acid, is toxic if ingested. (Which can also occur if one swallows the modern pennies as they are only clad with copper now.)
Likewise, the toxicity of chromium in some forms (Chromium VI being rather notorious) and other not so, like chromium III in chromium picolinate (the form chromium takes in vitamins).
The fact also remains that your average engineer/physicist has the social skills of a hippo. Dealing with criticism, in any form, is dealt with as a personal attack on them, as they are personally bound up in their ideas. Thus, to say “That idea is wrong…” is heard as “You are wrong and, therefore, stupid.” The engineer/physicist then reacts by bellowing and charging the boat and trying to sink it. No, wait…that can’t be right.
Anyhow, Og, don’t take it personal like. You are right. Steve has erred. I am sure he will recognize it at some point.
I’m not sweating it. It amuses me a great deal. I just like picking scabs.
I’ve been reading Steve H for years. It’s how I found your site. He’s a very smart and very miserable dude.
LOL! I don’t think steve is miserable. I think he’s a great guy. I remember having a lot invested in always being correct, too. I mean, at some time or another, we all know everything.
I don’t wish for anything but good and continued success- for Steve, and for everyone I know- it’s not in my nature. It’s not in my nature, either, to be a sycophant, especially when I’m right. it’s one thing to poke someone in the ribs when they think a toy like a Workmate is a serious tool; that’s in humor, and I can take as well as i give. It’s another thing to reccomend on a blog the size of his, that using galvanized in cooking equipment is perfectly OK, when OSHA, NIOSH, the EPA, the FDA, and every other such agancy makes it very clear that avoiding exposure is a good idea.
Wash water pitchers in Germany in WW2 were made out of zinc and marked “Kein Trinkwasser” because prolonged ingestion of water which was in contact with the zinc of the pitchers was harmful.
I would hope this was intended for April 1st, but I have no hope it was intended as a joke.
I’ve never checked it out, simply because I never thought of it until now, but way back when I was in vo-ag, the teacher told us one of the problems with welding/cutting torch on galvanized was that they used a form of cyanide in the plating process, and that traces of this are released when the coating got hot enough. Any info on that?
They use cyanide in several processes, I know, like cadmium plate, chrome plate, and as part of the pickling process for some hot dip galv products. That may have changed over the years.